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Reading is my favorite pastime. Before retiring I looked forward to my lunch hour so I could read. There were times when I had errands to run but the times I did not I would get out my novel and escape <img src="/images/graemlins/beamedup.gif" alt="" /> for a while.

I think Mary Higgins Clark and J.D. Robb are interesting quick reads and perfect lunch hour books.

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I love to read during lunch hour. Mysteries and romance novels are my fav! There is nothing like escaping from work for a few minutes.

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I love to read during lunch hour. Mysteries and romance novels are my fav! There is nothing like escaping from work for a few minutes.

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When I was working in publishing, I would bring novels to read at lunch and once in 18 years we even had a 10-minute lull. One day my boss was eating at the same restaurant with a friend. He picked up my bill for giving a "good example" to everyone by reading even during lunch.<G> His friend still burbles about his "intelligent" workers. Naw, just a real reader. For me, reading is an escape from the thinking world and into a fantasy one. It's a vacation from real-life cares, not necessarily a sign that I am one of the intelligensia.<G> (But it doesn't mean that I'm not, either.)
Happy reading,
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I love to read during lunch hour. Mysteries and romance novels are my fav! There is nothing like escaping from work for a few minutes.

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Isn't that the truth? You can get lost in a book. Mysteries and romance are my favorites as well.

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One day my boss was eating at the same restaurant with a friend. He picked up my bill for giving a "good example" to everyone by reading even during lunch.<G> His friend still burbles about his "intelligent" workers. Naw, just a real reader. For me, reading is an escape from the thinking world and into a fantasy one. It's a vacation from real-life cares, not necessarily a sign that I am one of the intelligensia.<G> (But it doesn't mean that I'm not, either.)
Happy reading,
Mary Ellen


Ho Ho, your boss is too funny. What a great story. But I think I understand his thinking. Very often worker's are seen to represent the whole office. I'll bet that your boss was beaming then and now!

Hey--you know that we all need a vacation from life's mundane. And that books are an excellent way to do it. I say that makes you and the rest of us who escape for short times by reading one of the intelligensia <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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